Although the States Have the Authority to Set the Minimum

question 19

Multiple Choice

Although the states have the authority to set the minimum drinking age,the United States has a national legal alcohol consumption age of twenty-one because ______.

• A) state compacts have led to a uniform drinking age
• B) the federal government threatened to withhold highway funds from any state that didn't have a drinking age of twenty-one
• C) all states are now sensitive to the consequences of underage drinking
• D) prohibition groups have lobbied successfully for a higher drinking age in all states
• E) the international standard for the legal drinking age is twenty-one

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